Southeast

A multi-part study by Cornell Consulting concludes that Florida should not build three major toll roads that are under consideration.

The Florida Cabinet approved new money and refunding bonds, some of which may be sold as taxable debt with advance tax-exempt refundings no longer possible.

Jim Beard, Atlanta's CFO for seven years, was charged by a federal grant jury with fraud, theft of government funds and purchasing illegal machine guns.

About 500 of Raymond James' workforce will be cut because of a decline in earnings due to low interest rates and the pandemic-induced economic downturn.

Billions of public funds have been spent cleaning up the bay, but two lawsuits say those efforts are endangered because the EPA failed to do its job.

In a long-range revenue forecast, a state economist told lawmakers that it could take two or three years for Florida’s hard-hit tourism industry to recover.

In the first two months of the fiscal year, Georgia saw state tax collections, which support the state general fund, increase by 12.4% year-over-year.

The public-private partnership Alabama is using to build three new prisons is estimated to cost nearly $2.64 billion over 30 years, up from $900 million.

Declining tourist taxes, which support the bond-financed Orange County Convention Center's expansion, led officials to suspend the design work on the project.

Georgia Power said in its latest report for the Plant Vogtle project that more than 800 workers have contracted COVID-19, and most have recovered.